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Forcibly removing Azure Arc on-prem server from Defender for Cloud
I have a few servers that were Arc enabled and decommissioned without removing Arc. How can I forcibly remove them from Defender for Cloud?
Forcibly remove decommissioned Arc-enabled servers from Defender for Cloud by deleting the corresponding machine resources directly from the Azure portal under Azure Arc > Machines, which automatically removes them from Defender inventory. Alternatively, use Azure CLI/PowerShell (Remove-AzResource) or run azcmagent disconnect --force-local-only if the physical server is unreachable.